I think a few times, I've posted about the WWII channel, World War Two, who are doing a week by week "live" feed of it- of course 79 years off. (why 79 and not 80? Who knows, they started in 2018)
But tomorrow starts a rather epic 24 hours for them- they are covering D-Day in a continuous 24 hour way. And it starts at midnight Paris time, or 6pm for those of us on the east coast, 3pm on the west. In their community tab- https://www.youtube.com/@WorldWarTwo/community- they have some more info on the coverage. On top of that, they are doing a specific channel for this https://www.youtube.com/@D-Day24Hours-sm5pe
One of the two channels, it will be HUGE time frame things, on the other, it will be parsed in smaller things.
These guys are historians, and their coverage of the war has been really interesting. While there have been huge events during the war, they suggest that Overlord is different in it's one day scale of things and how 24 hours changed the war- some of the quickest change of the war. One of the interesting thing they have asked the community (who cover the world), they have asked about both specific news coverage from each posters area, they have also asked for stories of friends or relatives who where there. So this looks to be a rather epic 24 hours of YouTube.
I'm not going to be able to watch all at once, but I certainly plan on watching all 24 hours as quickly as I can. It's one of the days of the war that has fascinated me for most of my life. Some of you will recall that when we went to Spa in 2007, we also went to Normandy to tour as much as our time let us (and we toured Belgium for the Battle of the Bulge on the same trip). I read Don Burgett's Curahee back in the 80s, well before Band of Brothers was written- which was a the story of a different company in the 506th.
Anyway, just wanted to let the WWII amateur historians aware of this coverage starting tomorrow.
